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The Mount Dandy News Top of the mountain, top results.

What’s in this issue?

News and Views 1

MDPS Tennis Coaching 2

ART Show & Art News 2

OSHClub News 3

Grade 6 Production 6

Calendar 9-11

News and Views...

Grade 6 Production a Hit Congratulations to our Grade 6 students and the team of staff, parent volunteers and grade 5 support crew for

their hit performance of Worry Warts. The story of young Keith Shipley who goes on an opal hunting adventure

in an effort to cheer up his misery guts parents and reignite their love for each other was portrayed excellently

by cast and crew. Each of the students’ portrayed an in-depth understanding of their characters and most im-

portantly, were clearly having a good time on stage. Well done Grade 6 students you made us all proud. We’d like to especially thank the staff who volunteered a great deal of their personal time to provide our stu-

dents with this opportunity. Thank you also to the parents who help with props, canteen, costumes and much

more. Thank also goes to Miss Csabi friend who came along to help with a number of backstage jobs. It takes a

real community effort to put on a play and our community really stepped up.

Well done and thank you to all who were involved.

Premier’s Reading Challenge 2015 The PRC has now closed for 2015 and we would like to congratulate the 18 students who successfully complet-

ed the challenge. The extra reading and the enjoyment that they had whilst participating in the challenge will

benefit their reading growth and competence immensely. Well done challengers! Thank you to Adele Cotton for helping coordinate this year’s challenge. Students can expect their certificates

next term.

Raffle Tickets Due Back on Friday The People’s Choice Community Lottery is due in by Thursday so we can finalise the paperwork on Friday.

Please return all ticket books regardless of whether you have sold them or not because we are accountable for

each book. The school receives 100% of the profit from sales and we will use it to repair the path behind the SLU which is a

bit of a safety concern.

That Sugar Film – Showing at Mt Dandy PS – 6pm –Monday 5th of October All families are invited to attend our screening of ‘That Sugar Film’. Entry is a gold coin donation that will be used

to purchase materials for our health unit of work during term 4. Damon Gameau, the director and lead actor, has kindly agreed to conduct a Q and A session afterwards. This is

a wonderful opportunity for our community and we’d love to see you all there. The Q and A session will be filmed as the education programs main sponsor BUPA would like to use the footage

to further support the message and their involvement. There will be an opportunity for those who prefer not to

be filmed to sit in a specific section of the multi.

Grade 5 Production This week our Grade 5 students are presenting their production to friends and family. We wish them ‘Chookas’

for Thursday.

Canteen is Back Term 4 Our canteen will be back on site from Friday October the 9th. We have formed a partnership with Brunch and

require some parent helpers to sort out the orders on a Friday. If we can get at least 10 volunteers, the commit-

ment will be about 1 Friday per month. Please leave your name at the office if you are able to volunteer.

2.30 Dismissal this Friday Please remember that all students will be dismissed at 2.30pm on Friday. Those students who catch the bus to-

wards Olinda will be escorted to catch the 2.21pm bus.

OSHClub will run a program from 2.30pm for those who require this service.

Happy Holidays We’d like to wish our community a wonderful term 3 break and we hope to see you back fit and healthy for the

last term.

Thank you, Mike Leonard and Anni Smart.

Mount Dandenong Primary School Farndons Road, Mount Dandenong 3767 www.mtdandps.vic.edu.au

Telephone—03 9751 1136 Fax—03 9751 2332 [email protected]

Purpose Statement Mount Dandenong Primary School values our unique environment and close community. It is a place for creative opportunities and academic

excellence, nurturing respect, happiness and independence.

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Thursday 22nd October 2015 Our Art Show is in its fourth year. The students have worked with members of our local community and parents to create some wonderful pieces for the exhibition. We hope all families can make it along to what should be a fabulous show.

Can you donate a trolley item?

This year we are asking parents if they can help out by donating a shopping trolley item to add to the raffle, which is drawn after the art show. The raffle prizes are typically items like; pencils, paints, brushes, felt pens, canvases, craft goods or any other art related item you can come up with.

In supporting the raffle you help to ensure the ongoing success of the wonderful art program at our school. Do-nations can be left at the office. Many thanks for your contribution. Michelle and Liz

MOUNT DANDENONG PRIMARY TENNIS COACHING Some exciting news for term 4 at Mount Dandenong PS— There will be tennis coaching on a Wednesday at

lunch times. This will be available to Preps, grade 1 and grade 2 to begin with. The first Wednesday of term 4, 7th of Octo-

ber, will be a free trail lesson for all Preps to grade 2 who are interested.

Classes will be full of fun, excitement, energy and will use the ANZ hotshots modified tennis equipment, that

makes learning the game of tennis easy.

Cost will be $80 for the term, which will get your child 8 lunch time lessons that will run for

50 min. All students who wish to play will need to get a sign up sheet from Lee, the tennis

coach, and return it to Lee filled out by your parents. Looking forward to some great tennis

in term 4.

Lee Patrick, Tennis Australia Club Professional Coach—M: 0412402265.

Art News

At the end of each term one boy and girl from

Grades Prep to Grade 6 will receive an Art certificate and prize

for their interest, enthusiasm and creativity in Art.

Congratulations to the following students who have received an

award for Term 3;

Taylor, Alistair, Ginger, Will, Cassidy, Alex, Poppy, Max, Cai,

Romy, Josie, Oliver, Aaron and Emily.







Would you be interested in an annual DVD of school memories?

The school’s fundraising committee are exploring the idea of putting

together an annual DVD of memories that parents can purchase. It

might include footage of assemblies, productions, concerts and other

special events. A wonderful memento capturing the past year.

Our first step is to work out the feasibility and costs that might be

involved. So we are reaching out to the school community to ask if

anyone knows of a videographer or someone with a keen interest in

filming, that might be interested in helping us with this idea.

If you know of anyone… please ask them to contact

Megan on 0418 331 743. No obligation, we just want to start the

conversation and see if this idea has value!

Enjoy a break with a

Massage or Natural Facial It’s a fast & effective way to relax and unwind

Call or text Melinda 0411 622 445

at Elle Naturale Olinda Shop 1 / 1606 Mt Dandenong Tourist Rd Olinda

www.ellenaturaleolinda.com.au

Open every day!

Join me for free meditation every Wednesday morning at 9.15am




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5/6 Rugby Gala

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Production

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Jump Rope for

Heart

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